Izlake (Medijske toplice) - Vrhija (via Podlipovica)

Access to starting point:
A) We leave the highway at exit Trojane and we follow the road signs towards Izlake. We drive through the settlement Orehovica, and then we get to Izlake. Immediately, when by the road we see the sign, which marks the beginning of Izlake, we turn right towards the decaying complex of spa Medijske toplice, where there is a large parking lot. Here we leave the car and we continue on foot.
B) From the direction of Zagorje ob Savi: On a regional road Zagorje - Trojane we drive through Izlake, where at spa Medijske toplice we turn left and we leave the car on a parking lot.

Path description:
The path starts at Medijske toplice, where we go on a sidewalk by the main road and we walk few 100 meters by the road in the direction of Trojane. On the left side, we will see a turn-off, which leads to a hamlet Podlipovica. Here we cross the main road and we continue on this road towards Podlipovica. The path after approx. 5 minutes of walking, it brings us to a crossing at the cheese cottage Sešlar, where we continue downwards, and good ten meters lower of this crossroad, we go left on a macadam road which on the foot of Kalanov hrib leads towards Suhi potok. The road again brings us on an asphalt road by which there is a religious symbol. At this crossroad we continue right, (left leads the path on Kalanov hrib via Okrog), in the direction of Suhi potok. Here already a view opens up on Vrhija, which is straight in front of us. After that, the path brings us to a hamlet Suhi potok, which is situated above the quarry Lipovica. Signs on the house point us towards the castle Kolovrat, so that we follow the road straight upwards. Here we again step on a macadam road by which there is a chapel. By this chapel left on the edge of a meadow leads the path on Vrhija, which I recommend for a return back from Vrhija, so that we make a small circular tour.
We continue on the macadam road downwards all the way to a larger meadow, through which runs a forest road left upwards. We step on this forest road which after a short entrance into the forest again brings us to a meadow, where a view opens up towards Borje, Kolovrat, Kolovraška reber and we continue by the edge of the forest left, where we again notice a forest path which leads straight upwards on Vrhija. We follow this road which after few minutes of ascent brings us to the top.
When we come to the summit, we can go on the other side of the hill, where we notice a forest path, which brings us back to the chapel.

On the way: Kalanov hrib(Kalanček) (626m), Grad Kolovrat (400m), Grad Medija (400m), Medijske toplice (275m)